What is 'Virtual Expo Web'?
Virtual: something which is a representation rather than the ‘real’ thing, thus ‘virtual reality’ [1].
Expo: a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display [2].
Web: a collection of Internet sites that offer text, graphics, sound and animation through the hypertext transfer protocol [3].
Virtual Expo Web is a 'University Consultancy' set up to promote the results and expertise developed on successful European Union IST projects such as the ARCO project—ARCO stands for Augmented Representation of Cultural Objects. ARCO has designed, implemented and now commercialised its technology to build virtual exhibitions on the web—a virtual exhibition on the web is basically a 3D enabled web site, so for example it could be your existing web site with 3D digital content added. In a museum context we might call such a 3D enabled website a 'virtual museum', for a car sales operation we might might call it a 'virtual showroom' and so on. Virtual Exhibitions can use 3D technologies and other associated technologies to design, digitize, manage, build and publish your virtual exhibitions to the web.
We can help you to create your own virtual exhibitions by:
- Showing you how to digitize your 2D and 3D web content (Digital Content Creation).
- Create photo-realistic 3D models from your digitized data.
- Build and manage collections of 3D models and supporting multimedia data.
- Build highly visual virtual exhibitions of your 3D collections.
- Re-purpose your digital assets (e.g. 3D models) for different virtual exhibitions.
- Publish virtual exhibitions to the Web.
- Publish virtual exhibitions to bespoke kiosk environments based on 3D, virtual and augmented reality.
- Build multi-modal interfaces to allow you to interact with your 3D digital content
